the application process is not going so well; i'm considering just shooting myself in the head instead. it would at least be quicker ( Read more... )

i've been writing without posting again. i know you're all desperate to get the details on the weekend malelia_honu was here, my run-in with the oral surgeon (the extended surgical root canal redux re-mix), the drinking i've been doing, the friends i've been making, every thought i've ever had about stargate: atlantis, ETC.—and you will! one day! in the ( Read more... )

my stab at calikali's frankenmix v. 4.0.

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so i was in boston for a little while there and then i wasn't anymore. that is, i finally, finally, FINALLY got my sorry self on a plane1 and went to visit silentfire, where for a week and a half i co-opted her floor, swelled cambridge's already-swollen student-age population, and watched, by our very exacting calculations, forty billions hours of episodic ( Read more... )

a. oh man, this is so late, but: a happy and healthy new year to everyone celebrating the new year! in my house we cooked all day for company (only cousin m. and my aunt and uncle this year) for dinner on both nights of rosh hashanah; my aunt had break fast and did it strangely, as we all knew she would but always hope she won't ( Read more... )

Y'all, I did something so bad to my neck in my sleep last night. So bad that I had to think very carefully about how I was going to get out of bed when I woke up early this afternoon, and after I did make it upright, the first thing I lunged for was the heating pad, and the heating pad and I then communed for a couple of hours. I've gotten back ( Read more... )

Parents and I saw Charlie and Chocolate Factory on . . . huh. Um, Sunday? Maybe? ( reactions, mostly negative )

Well, hurricane season has dashed off to an early—and roaring—start this year. This time I live on the fortunate coast: we just got whapped with some wayward tropical-storm-strength bands as Dennis moved off Cuba and up through the Gulf. On Friday the sun was out, but the wind was kicking up all day; it got dark around 5:30, started raining around ( Read more... )

Yesterday while I was sorting colored construction paper in my mother's classroom, I blurted out, "Mom, what was I doing when I was ten?" and I don't think I've ever startled her so badly in my life. I explained when she asked that I thought it would give me career guidance: it seems that people tend do what they've always done. She wasn't very ( Read more... )

This is the second time in two days iTunes has randomly and unprovoked offered up Tom Waits' "Train Song". It helps that the song is about being broke and hopeless and alone in the world and never going home again, but he could be singing about a Ferris-wheel ride with his first girlfriend and it wouldn't matter, because his voice is what seriously ( Read more... )